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Re: Safemail

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NODE df08f88bRe: Safemail
At 04:19 PM 6/18/96 -0400, you wrote:

>        SafeMail uses a proprietary Russian algorithm.

        Maybe it is GOST. Schneir covers it, and there is a white paper on
it at the b_crypt site.
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NODE 3b1facd5Re: Safemail
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
> 
> At 04:19 PM 6/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >        SafeMail uses a proprietary Russian algorithm.
> 
>         Maybe it is GOST. Schneir covers it, and there is a white paper on
> it at the b_crypt site.

But GOST isn't based on public key cryptography, it is a symmetric
algorithm, right?

And these guys claim that they use PK cryptography.

	- Igor.